Monday, 16 November 2009

Horizon Scanning.

Future studies gets into government.

'This short guidance document outlines how particular futures techniques can be used for particular parts of policy development. It is based on a detailed analysis that is available as a separate document.1 It builds on the guidance provided in the Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre (HSC) toolkit'

Qubits store more information than the simple "on" or "off" bits of conventional computing, which means that a quantum computer outperform conventional computers in tasks such as cryptanalysis.

As in a classical computer, a series of logic gates processes the information – although here the gates are quantum logic, or qubit, gates. For example, a simple single-qubit gate would change a 'one' to a 'zero' and vice versa.

But unlike the physical logic gates of a classical computer, the quantum logic gates used in the team's device are each encoded into a laser pulse.

.

So what does all this mean?

.

The size of pin a head: more computing-power-per-nanosecond than all the computingpower the world has receiveduntil now. That means watches, phones and other such devices with super-ultra-computingpower for pennies within a decade.